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http://www.gatesofvienna.net/
Has article with eyewitness accounts of what happened on the bus. The perp left behind a BACKPACK FULL OF ACCELERANTS. Meaning the perp was also intending to blow up/ burn up the bus and the people in it besides knifing as many as he could.
Article on Gates of Vienna has statement from the local police about “the motive is unknown.” The police ARE LYING. They know the motivation. It’s JIHAD. Muslims are commanded to wage war on the kuffar in as many ways as possible and in as many places as possible. “LONE WOLF JIHAD” is completely accepted in Islam and in fact is part of the command to the faithful. Muslims DO NOT have to be part of a group to wage Jihad.
This Muslim perp knew that he was waging LONE WOLF JIHAD and that Allah, according to the Koran, would find that to be a good thing. If the perp had died, he would be a “martyr to Islam”, even more “acceptable” to Allah.

His argument exhibits his weakness both as an intellect and a conservative. His analogy of Roseanne assumes he knows what Roseanne said was racist. He doesn’t. Second, his concern about the mob mentality assumes a parity of mob viciousness between Left and Right. This moral equivalence — whether naïve or deluded or based on a need to appease the mainstream — is a strong trait of RINOs.

While I have generally liked most of what Ben Shapiro has said in past videos. But in this situation, he had damn well better walk back his support for this pedo dude and give it to Roseanne, a true victim of posting a bad joke before giving it much thought.
James Gunn is right about one thing, however, there are plenty of Hollywood so-called comedians who have publicly said as bad or worse. However, they don’t work for the Walt Disney corporation. I still remember the vile things Stephen Colbert said about President Trump that are recorded in history on YouTube videos.
I really hope Ben Shapiro does a 180 on this guy and comes back to the light. Otherwise, he’ll go down in flames.

Heard Shapiro on the Glenn Beck show today (I know, but I kept the show on so I could hear from his own mouth about Gunn). What I heard was Shapiro say that what Gunn said and tweeted was despicable and awful, BUT that Shapiro would defend it because it’s FREE SPEECH. Then I turned the station.
Ben Shapiro has in my opinion lost the ability to make sound judgement.

Well, yeah, as far as I know Gunn is only guilty of being a disgusting jackwagon, and as being a disgusting jackwagon breaks no laws it’s a bit ridiculous to go after him *until proven guilty.
Then again (and this is the kicker, so pay attention): the left called this schiesse up — now they are crying about being hoist on their own petard.
Aw, that’s too bad, Maybe it was a mistake to jump on board with those new rules of yours lefties.

President Trump will ELIMINATE our $500+ Trade Deficit.
• He’ll use Tariffs to LEVEL the PLAYING FIELD and ELIMINATE China’s THEFT of IP.
• Industries will suddenly MAKE in AMERICA.
• Consumers will BUY MADE in AMERICA.

Manufacturing Renaissance is already generating YUGE numbers of jobs:
• Tariffs will multiply the growth.
• In Red States with low taxes and business-friendly regulation
• Away from Cities with suffocating taxes, illegal-sanctuary laws and unaffordable costs of living

ICE enforcement will REMOVE Illegals from SANCTUARY CITIES and STATES!

Citizens will FLEE the Blue States and hostile Cities for RED-TERRITORY JOBS!

JUST in TIME for the 2020 Census to shift Congressional seats from BLUE to RED!

“A cardiologist who treated former President George H.W. Bush was killed Friday morning in a bicycle-to-bicycle drive-by shooting near Texas Medical Center in Houston, authorities said.

Dr. Mark Hausknecht and the shooter were both riding bikes on South Main Street, near Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women, shortly before 9 a.m. local time, Executive Assistant Police Chief Troy Finner said at a news conference.

Hausknecht was biking north when he passed the shooter going in the other direction, Finner said. The shooter turned, fired two shots at Hausknecht and rode away on his bike, Finner said.

Hausknecht was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Finner said.

Finner said investigators didn’t know if the shooting was targeted, random or caused by road rage. He said a few people witnessed the shooting and video may become available.

The suspect was described as a Hispanic male, 20-30 years old, wearing a dark shirt, dark pants and riding a dark bicycle.”

Sure sounds targeted to me. Yikes. The world has gone totally mad. How on earth can you right so much wrong. I sure hope everyone understands how much we need to support President Trump and also get out and vote. I just moved back to Richmond, Va. I am in a very nice area and so shocked at the number of flaming liberals in my building. Our newest resident, a physician, has a Resist Trump bumper sticker. Ugg… I might have to make a midnight run and peel it off. Disgusting. Also, was curious if anyone having problems with other websites. I can’t get Rex, True Pundit or White Rabbit.

Its called a kill shot. Destroy the career and life of the opponent. The Democrat Party is going full blow Stalin on their enemies this Fall.

For any Democrat, such as the one who won district in PA this summer, who claims to be in favor of the Trump agenda, their voting record needs to be thrown in their faces and challenge them to repudiate the emerging Democrat Party’s Stalinist activities.

Exactly what I said earlier. They’re trying to destroy POTUS through his family and what closer relationship can he have but with his wife?
May the Almighty God protect their marriage and may He also drive out and punish those who would damage or suborn it.

It’s the DEMONcRATs’ standard MO. They have nothing, they are nothing, but trouble.
Just like their master, who stands accusing Christians before GOD day and night, endlessly, with no justification, only repetition…

Maybe I am upside-down. When I listened to Fox news describe this tape story, they were interviewing a hyper-talking legal lady. I kept asking myself “ what is bad about a famous person trying to pay a black-mailer , though mistakenly it encourages more blackmailing. ?” The extortionist is the criminal. I believe the enemy anti -Trump people have ‘conga-line ‘ of these gold diggers to pull out. Blackmailers.

It’s like that old millionaire joke, though I don’t believe anything happened at all. And yes, ALL-RED was involved in this, back in March. Yet it’s being played AS IF IT WERE NEW!

Millionaire: I have an indecent proposal. Would you sleep with me for $1,000,000.00?
shady-“Lady”: Well, that sounds interesting; I think so.
Millionaire: How about $100.00?
shady-“Lady”: Why NEVER! What do you think I am???
Millionaire: We’ve established that; now we’re just haggling over price…

Every good attorney records his phone conversations with his clients and witnesses. Never say anything incriminating on the phone with anyone.
It still angers me however, that President Trump’s attorney/client privilege was annihilated by extremist partisans. I just don’t understand how that can be legal.

Stormy Daniels didn’t work, Russia Russia isn’t working, so let’s try playboy model McDougal who got paid $150,000 by the national enquirer but didn’t publish the story! Another whore trying to make money off rich billionaire and trying to get attention because Trump was running for President !

After Rosenstein ended there was a panel discussion, which included our “beloved” Professional Bureaucrat Swamp Creature Tom Bossert, who quit the Trump Administration after being demoted in his Professional Bureaucrat status, and Lardarse Lisa Monaco, Swamp Creature Extroidinaire from Obama’s inner circle.

“The Justice Department did not specify the connection the two officials had to the special counsel probe. “Our understanding is that DOJ is saying that Mr. Rybicki and Mr. Ghattas supervise FBI agents who are supporting Mr. Mueller’s investigation,” Taylor Foy, a committee spokesman, told Newsweek by email in August. “The special counsel uses and interacts with the FBI like any other DOJ prosecutor.” Peter Carr, a spokesman for the special counsel, declined to comment at the time, citing the ongoing investigation.”

NINE members of the same family are among 17 killed in duck-boat tragedy, as survivors reveal how they were TRAPPED inside the boat as it sank and were ‘sucked’ under as they tried to swim away
Boat driver Robert ‘Bob’ Williams, 66, was one of the 17 people who died on the Ride the Ducks boat
Nine of the people who died were from the same family from Indianapolis but they have not yet been named
Two members of the same family survived the tragic accident, the Governor’s office confirmed
Couple Bill Asher and Rose Hamman were among those killed, as was hero grandmother Leslie Dennison
Leslie was on the boat with her 12-year-old granddaughter, who says the woman died saving her life
The mother of a girl who survived says passengers were being ‘sucked’ back into the lake by the sinking boat
The Ride the Ducks boat capsized on Table Rock Lake in Branson, Missouri, on Thursday at 7pm
The boat was carrying 31 people when aggressive storms rolled over the area and thrashed the water
Eleven people were pulled dead from the water on Friday night and seven were taken to the hospital
On Friday morning, another six bodies were pulled from the water including three belonging to children
Passengers on other boats on the water filmed harrowing footage of the boat being overpowered by waves
The National Weather Service issued a severe storm warning at 6.30pm on Thursday, 30 minutes earlier

The video that DM posted is shocking. Why these boats were allowed to go out in a storm is beyond me.

From what I heard, the area had been under the threat of severe storms since earlier that morning. Those boats are heavy and they sink like a rock. And with the enclosed canopy, many had no chance of escaping.

andyocoregon since there were two boats its a miracle that one was able to make it to shore. But the video just makes me cringe. Shocking. Should not have happened.
Also wonder about life vests. But a boat that sinks like a rock, storms and panic not good.

First,,, Condolences to the Families & children,, Whom lost their lives in this needless Tragedy..

“The two biggest mass casualties on water involving duck boats in the last 20 years featured crafts with overhead roof canopies that a federal agency said posed a drowning risk to passengers trying to escape from a sinking vessel.”

Experts say the presence of a canopy or other coverings on duck boats, which ride low to the water, creates undue difficulty for passengers trying to escape if the vessel sinks below the surface, whether they have life preservers or not.

“The problem with canopies is that if you are wearing your life preserver and there is a canopy and the boat capsizes then, the floatation device will take you up in the canopy, pinning you inside the vessel,” Mongeluzzi said. “If you don’t wear your life preserver, then you don’t have the floatation to get to the surface if the boat sinks.”

(From the Previous accident) noted below..

“When investigators recovered the boat, they found seven dead passengers still inside _ four of them pinned against the underside of the canopy, which made the prospects for an escape unlikely.

The National Transportation Safety Board investigated the Arkansas incident and arrived at this conclusion: “Contributing to the high loss of life was a continuous canopy roof that entrapped passengers within the sinking vehicle.” “”

And this in the 1999 accident..

Surviving passengers estimated that it took anywhere from 15 seconds to a minute for Miss Majestic to sink.

One passenger managed to escape before it went under, but the others, along with the operator, were trapped by the canopy roof and dragged down.

As the vehicle sank, six other passengers and the operator escaped and were rescued by boaters.

“All but one of the survivors stated that the canopy was an impediment to their escape,” the NTSB report said. “One man said, ‘If you had the cover (canopy) off, everybody would have had a chance. With that cover on, there’s too many people didn’t have a chance because that thing (the Miss Majestic) sank so quick (sic).”

The force of the water rushing in over the stern, the report said, “was strong enough to sweep a 6-foot 6-inch, 260-pound man standing near the sixth row forward and pin him against the windshield.”

“As the Miss Majestic sank, the metal framework on both sides of the passengers and the continuous canopy over their heads essentially caged them, making escape in the limited available time extremely difficult. As the vehicle sank to the bottom of the lake, the natural buoyancy of the passenger’s bodies forced them into the overhead canopy, which acted like a net to entrap them and to prevent their vertical escape.”

Add PANIC into the Mix, you get quite a few bodies.. As I’ve read in several reports Folks appeared to be “panicking” to “get out”..

Every once in a while I get nostalgic for the magnificent 2016 election and want to experience it a little bit again. Hearing the snark and insults of various pundits, in hindsight of victory, is sweet!

“July 20, 2018 “Information Clearing House” – Former CIA Officer and whistleblower Kevin Shipp says what Hillary Clinton did with her charity and Uranium One while she was Secretary of State was a crime for the history books. Shipp explains, “Hillary Clinton used this to launder money in foreign banks so it wasn’t subject to U.S. laws, congressional subpoenas or FOIA demands for the evidence. This was done to launder this money globally into the Clinton Foundation so the U.S. government could not examine it at all.”

Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller was the head of the FBI while the Uranium One deal was being done by Clinton and the Russians. One fifth of U.S. uranium production was bought by the Russians in a deal Clinton pushed and approved. The Clinton Foundation received more than $140 million from some of the same Russian players who were involved with Uranium One. Why didn’t Mueller stop the deal? Shipp says, “Mueller is either a complete moron, which he is not, or he overlooked the biggest counterterrorism cases in U.S. history. It involved Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, Uranium One and, of course, the destruction of all the emails and evidence and her secret server, and on and on and on it goes, and he (Mueller) ignored it all.” …”

talk show is perfect for her…
she’s another who has created a caricature of herself – to get laughs…
at her essence she is highly intelligent, passionate about Judaism, family and America.
Look forward to her show.

"It is incredibly valuable to the people of the United States of America that President Putin and President Trump continue to engage in dialogue to resolve the difficult issues that our countries face between each other." – Sec. of State Pompeo on Putin visit to the White House pic.twitter.com/TQmRfCVhaC

I THINK, IIRC, that the REASON we say Red for repub, and Blue for dem, goes back to showing the electoral map, on tv, once we got color broadcasts.
And it’s TRUE; they didn’t want to show dems as red, cause of the,association with red and communists.

The only pouncing should it come, would be after the repubs retaining the house in the midterms (negating impeachment(s).
And/or holding the senate to thwart removal(s) from office.
Any action via canning mueller before then would be inviting a blue wave.

“… That passage was transmitted on May 19, 2017. “There’s no big there there,” Strzok texted.

The date of the text long has intrigued investigators: It is two days after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein named special counsel Robert Mueller to oversee an investigation into alleged collusion between Trump and the Russia campaign.

Since the text was turned over to Congress, investigators wondered whether it referred to the evidence against the Trump campaign.

This month, they finally got the chance to ask. Strzok declined to say — but Page, during a closed-door interview with lawmakers, confirmed in the most pained and contorted way that the message in fact referred to the quality of the Russia case, according to multiple eyewitnesses.

🤔Interesting how this 15 minute extensive interview with President Trump was not played heavily within media. Interesting how the video was not distributed by CNBC until today. Watch and you'll see why: https://t.co/5N7rKVjCjA

2day marks 25YRS W/OUT MISSING A VOTE in the US Senate My last missed vote was July 14 1993 when I was home touring the flood damage w Sen Harkin & Pres Clinton My job is to represent the ppl of Iowa in the US Senate every day 1 way of doing that is not missing a vote!